[olug] Unix Tip: OUTPUT A FILE IN REVERSE

[Kenton Brede]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 09:48:17AM -0500, William E. Kempf wrote:
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> Thom Harrison said:

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> 3) Why in the world is this a seperate program?  (If there is a need for
> this sort of thing, shouldn't it be a command line switch on cat?)
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There is a short book that may help answer this question for you.  It is
called, "The Unix Philosophy" by Mike Gancarz.  The answer would fall
under number one and two of the "nine major tenets":

1. small is beautiful
2. make each program do one thing well  

This site outlines the book -
http://hebb.cis.uoguelph.ca/~dave/27320/new/unixphil.html
kent

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